The nonpartisan League of Women Voters has debuted a television ad asking Americans to call and urge their senators to support health care reform.
In the 30-second advertisement, League of Women Voters president Mary G. Wilson decries the “desperate tactics” used by health care-reform opponents. The ad is an uncommonly forceful statement from an organization that has long avoided taking sides on controversial issues.
“This is an unusual step for us,” Wilson said. “But as a non-partisan membership organization that believes in reasoned and civil debate we felt compelled to take a stand against the lies and the distortions” being disseminated by reform opponents.
The ad will air from October 14-28 in Arkansas, Maine, and North Dakota.
